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BEDM #11 and #12: Oops

You may have noticed that I didn’t post yesterday so I have already fallen behind with the BEDM challenge. I had great intentions of posting yesterday evening but sometimes life gets in the way and if I am being perfectly honest, crashing out on the sofa took precedence – I was totally and utterly shattered

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BEDM #10 – Advice

I’m not good at giving advice; heck, I am not even that good at taking advice but when I found I couldn’t stick to the prompt for #BEDM and lacked inspiration for a post of my own, Nic suggested a piece of advice for others and I thought that was a great idea for a post. What

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BEDM #9 – Motivation

Motivation. What is the meaning of the word? Definition wise, it means a reason or reasons for acting or behaving in a particular way. To me, personally, it means getting my lazy bum in gear and actually doing something – and something has kick started that. Motivation is a funny thing; it can come to you

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BEDM #8: Local History

I live in a tiny little village in Hertfordshire just down the road from St Albans (which seems to house half of the UK’s bloggers!) – in fact, my village apparently counts as St Albans to some whereas others don’t include it… random! I wasn’t sure whether to write about my village or St Albans

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BEDM #7: An Ode To My Kindle

The prompt for today is Gadgets. I decided, after much coercion (read: I had no choice!) from these two, that I should write an ode to my favourite gadget of all, my Kindle. Some might say that I love our iPad mini or the TV or even my phone just as much but my Kindle

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